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标题：Modeling the role of voyaging in the coastal spread of the Early Neolithic in the West Mediterranean
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作者：Neus Isern ; João Zilhão ; Joaquim Fort 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2017
卷号：114
期号：5
页码：897-902
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1613413114
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：The earliest dates for the West Mediterranean Neolithic indicate that it expanded across 2,500 km in about 300 y. Such a fast spread is held to be mainly due to a demic process driven by dispersal along coastal routes. Here, we model the Neolithic spread in the region by focusing on the role of voyaging to understand better the core elements that produced the observed pattern of dates. We also explore the effect of cultural interaction with Mesolithic populations living along the coast. The simulation study shows that ( i ) sea travel is required to obtain reasonable predictions, with a minimum sea-travel range of 300 km per generation; ( ii ) leapfrog coastal dispersals yield the best results (quantitatively and qualitatively); and ( iii ) interaction with Mesolithic people can assist the spread, but long-range voyaging is still needed to explain the archaeological pattern.
关键词：Neolithic ; coastal spread ; computational model ; voyaging ; cultural transmission